THE IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. XXIV 



CHICAGO, MARCH, 1909. 



NO. 5 



THE IRRIGATION AGE 



With which is Merged 



MODERN IRRIGATION THE DRAINAGE JOURNAL 



THE IRRIGATION ERA MID-WEST 



ARID AMERICA THE FARM HERALD 



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It may interest advertisers to know that The Irrigation Age it th* 

 only publication in the world having an actual paid in advance 

 circulation among individual irrigators and large irrigation corpo- 

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 readers in all parts of the world. The Irrigation Age is 24 yean 

 old and is the pioneer publication of its class in the world. 



Northern Idaho Forestry Association, 

 Idaho composed of lumbermen of Washington, 



Forestry Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and 



Association. Nebraska, owning hundreds of thousands 

 of acres of virgin forest lands in the pan- 

 handle of Idaho, will urge the forestry department, 

 headed by Gifford Pinchot, to co-operate with it in the 

 protection of the standing timber, including several 

 hundred thousand acres in the national forest reserve, 

 declared to be the largest stand of white pine left in- 

 tact on the continent. The association expended more 

 than $100,000 this year in building trails, maintaining 

 stations and patrols, and fighting forest fires. 



It is purposed to build a series of twenty dams at 

 the headwaters of the Coeur d'Alene, St. Maries and St. 

 Joe rivers and their tributaries to create enormous reser- 

 voirs to store the snow water from the mountains for 

 release during the dry season. This will provide a 

 means to fight fires, insuring also a steady flow in the 

 streams for logging, irrigating and mining purposes 

 and checking the floods during the spring freshets, thus 

 eliminating the danger of the destruction of millions 

 of dollars' worth of property by the ravages of swollen 

 mountain streams. 



A. L. Flewelling of Spokane, chairman of the 

 committee on conservation, will leave for Washington, 

 D. C., early next year to discuss the matter with Mr. 

 Pinchot and endeavor to enlist federal aid. 



The American Irrigation Federation, 

 American which has vice-presidents and members in 

 Irrigation every state and territory where water is 

 Federation. applied to lands by scientific means, will 

 meet in annual convention in Spokane on 

 August 8, the day before the seventeenth National Irri- 

 gation Congress is formally organized. 



G. L. Shumway, of Scottsbluff, Neb., chairman of 

 the executive committee of the federation, conveys the 

 foregoing information in a letter to B. Insinger, chair- 

 man of the local board of control of the congress, at 

 Spokane. 



Mr. Shumway adds it is likely that the governor 

 of Nebraska and a representative delegation of men 

 interested in reclamation and forestry in his state will 

 attend the congress. He urges that advocates of pri- 

 vate irrigation enterprises, the Carey act and other mat- 

 ters of similar character and scope be given a hearing, 

 saying that the good points of all are certain to be 

 brought out in spirited debates. 



The officers of the federation are: President, I(. 

 Bradford Prince, Santa Fe, N. M. ; secretary, D. H. 

 Anderson, editor IRRIGATION AGE, Chicago; vice-presi- 

 dents, Presley E. Horn, Hailey, Idaho; Prof. J. D. 

 Tinsley, Mesilla Park, N. M. ; Tom Eichardson, Port- 

 land, Ore. ; Judge Cyrus Happy, Spokane ; C. T. John- 

 son, C. E., Cheyenne, Wyo. ; Prof. 0. V. P. Stout, 

 Lincoln, Neb. ; Prof. F. D. Coburn, Topeka, Kas. ; 



